WASHINGTON – Since President Biden took office in 2021, there have been at least eight million illegal border crossings into the United States and more than 5 million apprehensions at the southern border.
Along the southern border, Texas and Arizona have constructed temporary barriers made out of shipping containers in order to fill gaps in the unfinished border wall. After the U.S. Department of Justice sued Arizona, claiming the containers along the southern border violated federal law, the state started to remove the containers. However, Texas has maintained its wall of shipping containers.
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) in introducing the Creating Obstructions Necessary to Address Illegal and Nefarious Entry Rapidly (CONTAINER) Act. This legislation would allow border states to take action on specific federal lands to secure an international border of the United States.
“The Biden administration’s refusal to secure our southern border has forced states to combat the crisis on their own. Instead of fixing its policy decisions, the administration sued states trying to stem the flow,” said Cramer. “In the face of an administration actively choosing disorder over its solemn duty to safeguard our territorial integrity, states should have the flexibility to take action when the federal government doesn’t.”
Specifically, the legislation authorizes border states to place temporary, moveable structures on federal land for the purpose of securing the border without first seeking federal approval. The CONTAINER Act would allow states to keep these structures on federal land for up to a year, subject to 90-day extensions.
Additional cosigners include U.S. Senators JD Vance (R-OH), Cindy Hyde Smith (R-MS), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Ted Budd (R-NC), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Mike Braun (R-IN), Tim Scott (R-SC), and Ted Cruz (R-TX).
Alternate title: Senate introduces bill to allow states to do the job the federal govt. is responsible for, and criminally negligent for failing to do it.
The whole Biden Administration needs to be taken out of office and locked up for not doing this one thing that is their responsibility as the Federal Govt.
It’s my opinion that the whole administration is fake and Trump is CIC anyway but as the “Federal Govt.” that the people see, they should.
Didn't Abbott just prove that this is already legal by TX National Guard taking over Eagles Pass and kicking out the federal border agents?
I think the DOJ will sue, which is what he wants from a legal standpoint.
Edit: Sorry, what he wants is to secure his state's fucking border. A nice side-effect is a legal force-of-the-hand if the Feds want to push back in any way.
Let's see how the uniparty deals with this bill. They're number 1 and 2 agenda: take guns away from Americans and flood our nation with illegal aliens. Invasion from within. They're going to fight for this tooth and nail.
Yeah like Bi-Deng is going to sign this even if it gets past both chambers.
u/#topkek
States rights first anyway. They don’t need this bill to enforce compliance and restrict border access. Quit acting like neutered puppies and do your Constitutional duty!
I call bullshit on 8million crossings, that's just going to work in favor of fraudulent votes for the dems. Give them that big number and they will use it FFS
Why not remove funding and make it a crime for people getting paychecks from the federal government to not do their jobs in order to help wetbacks enter the country?
Where the he_ _ has Congress been for the past 3 years? Now that the majority has dwindled they have decided to grow a pair so that they can say, “Oh well, we did try.” Doubtful that the Dems in the Senate go along or that the House will prevail with the person we call “President.”
Well 2 things we're pretty sure of. Much of what we're seeing is a movie (orchestrated) and things will probably get much worse before it gets better. The border can't be fixed under the Leftist regime. The people have to see it. Sad but true. Whatever congress proposes it won't be enough.
Election coming up
They are gonna have a fun time when NY cosponsors this...
🤣🤣🤣 and Illinois
Why would a state need permission to do this?
Think of all the homeless people who could be housed, if we took the border patrol budget, and spent it on them, since the border patrol has utterly failed to do their job.